Pictured above: The volunteers from Bournville
Employees from the Cadbury site in Bournville are taking part in
a 1000 mile, nationwide bike ride from John O'Groats to Land's End
to raise £20,000 for ParalympicsGB.
David Holmes, Nila Naik, Alan Lewis and Phil Thurston will make
up part of a team of 20 volunteers from Kraft Foods sites across
the UK participating in the Deloitte Ride Across Britain challenge
from 11th - 20th June 2011.
Nila Naik, Spots V Stripes ambassador at the Cadbury site in
Bournville, said: "ParalympicsGB is a registered charity that is
responsible for selecting, preparing, entering, funding and
managing Britain's Paralympic athletes. At Bournville, we're aiming
to raise £4000 to go towards our overall target and I'd like
to thank everyone who has donated so far, we greatly appreciate all
contributions to what we feel is a very worthy cause.
"We've all been training hard and, as part of our preparation,
we were lucky enough to gain some expert advice from sprint kayak
Olympic gold medallist Tim Brabants. We're fully prepared and are
all really looking forward to the challenge ahead."
In June 2010, a team of 16 employees took part in Ride Across
Britain and raised over £15,000 for the charity, with other
employees at the workplace taking part in Virtual Ride Across
Britain, in which they clocked up over 1000 miles on stationary
bikes located at various sites all over the UK.